Wave Ren Compressor
edit...he he...guess this one had no update a long time

 

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maybe someone can copy and paste some info from waves , i cant cause host

See the full range of Waves compression plugins.

..so we can talk on on that topic...

for me SSL bundle is the most used by me...the guy from https://www.youtube.com/user/mixbustv

has plenty hardware but cant live without ssl g channel for lowend.(mixing metal a lot)...whenever a g channel is not suitable for electronic music says deadmau...mainly cause of shelf filter in g channel i guess

 

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first you should know when starting compressing - do not use WAVES

 

he he this is big point and much relative .....some do it like this and some do it opposite i have feeling..

can you say compression comes after gain staging....?

 

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This is a rewritten article from a 2015 blog post to sell some garbage Waves plugins.

 

gain staging comes before AND after compression.
i think i might be misunderstanding your post though :/

 

sry my english tun...but im better in english language then 2 years ago...

ok..
like quadcore64
mentioned it would be cool to sort things out a bit anyway ...
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e.g all were sought after omni channel and now you hearing not much of it that ppl using it much...a mag had omni channel pretty down at bottom on list of channel strips which rock....

 

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mercurysoto pls compare waves cla with black rooster cla , maybe when having the time in future.....curious what you will say ?
i bet on rooster.....lets make poll he he

cant test at moment and i want sort things out for me...sort out heavy you kno..i want get my plugz together and stay with it till dead....i do plugin science to quit plugin science you kno...

 

sry for offtopic but them have also CLA....did anybody like NI dynamic processors ??

btw CLA could be the most software modeled unit out there i have feeling...EDIT could be cause it stands in every studio

 

Well with hardware it had bloody well better come after. If you hit the circuits too hot or too cold you won't get proper detection. With software it's almost certainly the same. I can only think of one instance where compression comes before pre-amping and that's the Manley Voxbox.

 

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As far as I'm aware the CLA in the waves products stands for Chris Lord Algae, who owned the selected extra special sauce hardware models they copied into softs and gave his favourite settings to. The proper name for a 76 type compressor is a Urie, the LA2A/3As are old time levellers. Generally, anything with anybody's name on the front from Waves is a sure fire run away from screaming product, with a possible exception of Andrew Schepps' stuff which is mostly useful.

Back in the day most small town studios had A compressor made in Germany out of used automobile parts and elastic bands, which you were allowed to touch only after a lifetime degaussing tape heads, making tea and putting up with everybody else's egos. If you can't master the Ren Comp, everything else is a waste of cash.

 

thx for sharing fudsey plange......pure info magic for me

 

Yes, indeed, and the reason I posted it is that it doesn't matter who makes the plugin. What takes one to the finish line is the understanding of how compressors work. It doesn't matter that it is Waves making the article. The principles are sound and thorough. When that information is clear in one's head, then one chooses the compressor that makes their hearts content and go back to making music.

Well, it may be true; however, I wouldn't call Waves stuff garbage. It may not be one's favorite taste in sound or workflow, but they are a studio staple for some reason. Some might say it's just their longevity in the marketplace, same as Pro Tools, but genuine crap doesn't last the test of time. Besides, they keep adding new tools and plugins on a regular basis, and they have modded their pricing structure, so arguing that they sell $7000 bundles is now a oversight. If you want to go legit, all of their plugins get to cost $30 on a yearly basis. The fact is that that oftentimes it's not the plugin to blame, but the skill to use it. Plugin emulations are calibrated mathematically to behave like the real deal, so gain staging is fundamental in getting the best sound out of them. That leads me to the next point.

I used to embrace making A/B comparisons of plugins, especially when I first started using UAD plugins and wanted to see how they differed, but I got to realize that all plugins can do the job, and ABying them was a moot point. I tried to make comparisons on the same settings for each plugin and run the same source through them, but just like with hardware, each unit is different. Each plugin maker uses a different physical unit for modelling, and the result is that each plugin has a different soundprint. I use UAD LA2A for tracking bass, for example, because it sounds beautiful and it has 2ms latency on my Apollo unit, but when mixing, I often run out of juice with UAD plugins and I have to prioritize, so in mixing, I use CLA2A. It sounds great, too. You just have to learn how to tweak it for the best sound you want. However, I will try the Black Rooster plugin and share thoughts with you, and yeah, make one more comparison for good times sake.

I tried them once and wasn't happy with the results, but that must have been me not using them right.

Do you mean the Teletronix LA2A, the real hardware emulated? I guess you do. At almost $4000 dollars each channel, it's a good reason to emulate it. I am saving to but the poor man's choice, the Warm Audio WA-2A, but then software emulation is so good (and so widely accessible), that I guess it's not that necessary anymore. BTW, I love the Cakewalk LA2A that was given away some time back.

 

yea right i meant teletronix la2a...sry ...facepalm...
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NI dyn processors:
naw man you did using them right....
here you can see why they sound like this....i guess them are minimal techno processors thats why...

 

he he ...i feel you bout that A/B thing...
thanks a lot mate

 

Copy it, paste into LibreOffice Writer, export as RTF, ODF, or PDF. Easy.
I guess the Windows version has the PDF export, too.

 

nice site note...

i needed 2 hours to scan s3200 manual and 4 to make a pdf with pdf24 after i tried 4 or more other apps..
i always did rtf documents in win7 when copien site...i used website to pdf converter app but that was not so...thx for tip with libre office...i heared that apps name often
BTW another site note : s1100 manual has 100 sites and s3200 200 sites...little indicator here
EDIT but as you can see : why does these idiot own s1100 manual now ha ha...we kno why ...

 

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It absolutely matters if you basically steal someones content and advertise your products, including links to their products. Most people don't chose their plugins by sound but how they look and Waves knows that very well.

 

you mean gui's like this....i think there was a even abstracter one..


got it